Practice and qualifying is going to be broken up with two NASCAR Now programs. It should be interesting to see how ESPN chooses to lay this day out on the air.

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I was just playing around with tickets at the RIR.com site. I fear we are going to see empty seats. Well, they spread them out so maybe we won't notice, but they still had blocks of 10 in 5 of the grandstands for the Cup race, and plenty of others other than the frontstretch.

I haven't been able to find out who's doing the anthem tomorrow--tonight it looks like it's a contest winner. Hopefully a good one. Because of the date, probably tomorrow it'll be someone significant.

great shot of little martin wrenching on the back-up car & wonderful to get an immediate, intelligent explanation from evernham.we really don't need tim brewer. really we don't. especially when he completely discounts what the driver says he experienced.

I tune out Captain Obvious and when I've hoped he'd do something intelligent (like after Elliott's Pokeynose wreck) I'm always disappointed. That was my last chance with him, so I've completely given up on him. But I was chatting with a new friend Josh last night and we were saying how Ray should take over. He's actually educational like you're suppose to be!

@GinaV24: nope: new health issue hit the fan yesterday. dr has me on stronger, new meds & doesn't want me that far from home in case of reactions. i am seriously bummed but sometimes, i can be smart and do as i'm told. still trying to figure out what all this means going forward, tho. may be related to the continuing inner ear issue, may not. lyme test has been done . . .

as for coverage of practice: so many brewer sightings & @ttiana hasn't been giving us advance warning on twitter; everyone runs well at richmond (even those who don't); 10 lap run averages are interesting -- last one had the 48 followed by the 82!; litttle martin's 2nd lap wreck was scary and again, i wish we had only craven, evernham and bestwick in the booth.

i blame the meds for my nodding off from time to time but then again, maybe not.

GinaV24: think is ent you an email yesterday about my being "black flagged" for richmond. lemme know if it didn't get to you. it was in response to your email about the new arrival in the family.

as for practice: everyone's loose, crew chiefs are saying "wait for tomorrow night," biffle's car has had evrything thrown at it but it's not responsive (altho' rusty states it's because of old tires so i wonder why biff's crew chief didn't think of that) and did you know that bowyer is the only driver with anything to lose tomorrow night?

bowyer still fastest in practice followed by newman, JPM, edwards and reutimann. first session almost over.

lol...I swear last week, Mike Seidel on the Weather Channel said Long Island was a long island and it 'sticks out'....maybe he had 'Breweritis'. But at least he was ad-libbing out on a beach and wasn't doing a planned segment. geez....

GinaV24 & glenc1: i think i knew it was earnhardt sr who nicknamed wallace "rubberhead." i don't think i realized it was after that horrible wreck that nearly killed rusty and when dr jerry actually had to perform cpr on him, tho. he says he came to, seeing earnhardt pulling the windshield off his car and yelling "don't you go dying on me now, rubberhead!"

As for the Anthem, at Richmond it's usually the Henrico police officer (I think he's a lieutenant) that can sing like an angel. I don't recall anyone else doing it recently, September 11th or no. We here in VA stick with our traditions.

red, I hope you feel better soon. I wonder how ratings will be this weekend, seeing it's opening weekend for the NFL? But Nascar should keep it's hopes up for next season. If the NFL has a lockout next year, there will be nothing to watch on Sunday afternoon. And it does look like there will be a job action as evidenced by the silly raised arms by the Vikings and Saints before last night's game. Yeah, solidarity for guys making millions, and wanting more. Sheesh.

Terri--we haven't seen him in years. So much for tradition. Maybe not since the ISC bought it from the Sawyers, at least for the Cup racee. Shame, I enjoyed him. In the spring it's been the Marine band for a few years. One year it was Big & Rich, they were awful, I was there for that one.

I really wasn't listening too much to cup qualifying but it seemed like they have moved over to the Kyle Busch lovefest! Doesn't look good for tomorrow, it'll be chase, chase and more chase. 51 Year Old Fan you are killing me! Bad news for Texas Terry.